by Kenny » Sat Jun 22, 2013 12:56 pm
Hi again Barbara... That's well worth noting, and as we discussed, the reason for passing this on is to try and discover who the speaker is, and certainly you and other members of your family noted it was spoken in the "tones" of your late father, John "Jack" Rand... It's always going to remain a mystery unless families of all the crew are located and then they get the chance to hear it too... I made a mistake on placing its dialect and the friends that have now listened to it noted that there is a mixture of dialects involved... it is always possible that it was a "letter" the BBC arranged to be read out and it is almost certain that the writer was one of the pilots of DP180... the research continues...
Barbara and Alex... On another note I've just been sent a six page article this week published late last year and credited to Tom Docherty, writer of the best of the books with material on this subject, "Hunt Like A Tiger", that I intend to forward on to you both this weekend for your records. There are a couple of pictures and items I've not seen before, as well as a couple of pages from Flt Sgt Butcher's log book, which offers additional info and notes newsreel cameramen being sent to Indawgyi amongst other things... I would like post them here but might need to obtain permission first; I intend to crop these and put them up once stitched as they straddle two pages... transcription should not present an issue though...